Still screwing with the swaybar...I think I am going to end up with the splined bar and have to make my own ends.
I have logged just under 2000 miles in about 5 weeks. Daily driving it and driving to to vegas racked up the miles. I developed a clunk. It ended up being a defective shock. It feels like the shock is bottoming out when there is still 3 1/2 in of shaft showing. I couldnt find the bottoming out feeling, I assumed it was coils clapping/binding but I disconnected the shocks. I havent wheeled or anything. I contacted the company wont answer my calls or emails. Seeing they are barely used and only a month or so old I want to atleast talk to the morons. It got to the point where after so many attempts I gave up and filed a claim with VISA...If they atleast told me no warranty or gave me an answer Id leave it be.
So I need new shocks, I wanna stick with 14s but want some shorter bodied ones. My current ones are 20.75 collapsed.
I went wheeling for the first time, the droop is insane. I still had 2in or so of more droop from the shock and a good 2-3in more of uptravel. Honestly it would of been easier to just do coilovers, I need longer coils, I have thought of synergy rear JK coils, they have 11.75 of travel from "block height" to free length. these dont have that nearly as much. The synergy front coils have 13.5in of travel from block height to free length but I dont think those will be firm enough for the weight I carry. Any suggestions on long free length coils.
I also need to swap in some new stock leafs. My old ones are OEM have 130k on em and are shot...I have some H3T ones but have they 2 add a leafs in them per side so I wanna pull one or both add a leafs or do the bebe spring mod.
I called up auto zone today to get the carrier bearings for my ox locker, 3 days to get?!? No one else had em...Weird. Anyways I hopefully will install my ox locker soon.
First big trip is at the end of November. I have a ton to do and not much time! I need tires too.
Here are some pics.
My bumper needs to go, I gotta build one but the wings were ticking me off so my buddy and cut the wings off in about 3 minutes. I have a ton of other **** to do but eventually the bumper will be made.
Overall, this hill climb is very rutted out and I would be spinning tires and having to put effort into climbing it. This thing literally crawled itself. I could give my sister the keys and let her drive up it. Its insane. I gotta still figure out the coils. I need a longer free length, I dont want to clamp both ends unless it wont limit flex, out in so cal flex helps alot. My plan to is to synergy rear JK coils. They will be stiffer then the fronts and they list block height and free length. they have around 12in of travel in the spring. The fronts have 13.5 If I use rears I would only unseat my coil 2 inches which is not a big deal if I have my center tube that will keep the coil from falling out. This is very common with jeeps and they will unseat their coil 6in with no ill effects. I want to keep it to a minimum, maybe 2in. As long as the coil is being retained in the spot I am good.
